4 Feb 2014 | 12:00pm - 2:00pm | CRASSH Seminar room SG1, Ground floor |
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Howard Chiang (University of Warwick)
Respondent: Rachel Leow (University of Cambridge)
Abstract
This presentation introduces my current book-in-progress, which aims to accomplish three goals: it argues for the centrality of sexual scientific knowledge in modern China’s cultural formation; it highlights the role of the body as a catalyst in the mutual transformations of Chinese national modernity and the social significance of sex; and it establishes a genealogical relationship between the demise of eunuchism and the emergence of transsexuality in Chinese-speaking society. By provincializing China, this Sinophone genealogy of sex change maps the underexplored history of China’s modern “geobody” onto the more focused history of the biomedicalized human body.
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